Saturday, November 24, 2007

Welcome back to our weekly installment of The Pam Ward Chronicles. I'm going to be keeping track of the Announcing Quotes throughout the day and I ask that you join in. Please leave any that you come across in the comments or feel free to email me at AwfulAnnouncing@Gmail.com.

We have some great quotes to get us started from yesterday's action, and if you need an announcing schedule for today...click below...

"That's a headsy play, and Ponder tries to take it down yonder."- Ray Bentley

"This is his last home game here at home."- Andre Ware on UVA's Chris Long (Via Bruce)

"That ball almost took a sideward spin and hit Macho Harris."- Andre Ware

Sounds like something Emmitt would say.

"...and it winds up being Vince Hall coming in the face of Peter Lalich..."- Andre Ware (Via ZHR)

"You need to go to the bakery and get yourself a nice warm turnover." - Andre Ware (Via Anon)

"Vince Hall was running down his throat."- Dave Pasch

That duo is nasty.

"Crowd wanted UConn to go for it on 4th down" - Bob Wischusen, too bad West Virginia was on offense at the time. (Via Mookie)

"If you're going to underthrow the ball, you have to do it short."- Ed Cunningham (Via Anon)

"Foster runs it outside down the sideline and is bumped out of bounds and will stop the clock. Well, the clock's not running. Oh, we're in overtime."- Craig Bolerjack (Via Willmott)

David Norrie just got the Aflac trivia question right and the ESPN stats team got it wrong, at least as asked. The question was the most played college football rivalry - Norrie said Lehigh v. Lafayette . . . the duck said Wisconsin-Minnesota at 117. Leigh and Lafayette have played 142 times. The question would've needed to have the qualifier for the bowl subdivision of NCCA D-1 to be correct. (Via Anon)

I caught that as well. I thought I knew the answer as well...Bob Wischusen laughed at him like he was crazy.

"Nice part about it, I think he understood everything Bonnie said."- Paul Maguire on Bonnie Bernstein's interview with Uga the Georgia mascot

I think he's saying you're a bitch Bonnie. I'll kill him.

"On the Georgia sidelines, the water girl happens to be sleeping with the coach.

[long pause]

She happens to be Richt's wife." - Brad Nessler (Via The Unreliable Narrator)

"...had to give Muns that cigar."- Brad Nessler"We wondered what you were giving him."- Bob Griese"We've been trading cigars for about 28 years."- Brad Nessler"Voice sounds a little younger than yours.- Paul Maguire"Does it?"- Brad Nessler"We were wondering what you were giving him for after the game. You know my partner over here, he....."- Bob Griese"I thought you were giving him a bud."- Paul Maguire

"The thing you have to realize is that these teams are in un-chartered waters."- Kirk Herbstreit

im just glad espn decided to put the umass/fordham game on espnu instead of the appalachian / james madison game. because noone wants to see the last two national champions, they want to see the northeastern teams play

Not announcing, but the crawl at the top of the OU/OSU game on Fox Sports Net read: "Your watching Oklahoma State at Oklahoma..." I guess it's asking too much for the person writing the crawl to know the difference between your and you're.

Was I the only person watching the ND/Stanford game? I wouldn't be surprised if I was but still, besides Jack Arute, it had to have been one of the worst announced (not to mention officiated) games all year. Featuring:

-Dave Lamont being fooled by the play-action-Dave Lamont mistaking Lou Holtz for Charlie Weis in the lineup intros-Ceaseless chatter about the "packed turf" and what it means when the trainer takes the QB's helmet away-Charlie Weis going commando?-"If they didn't convert on fourth down that would have been throwing the match in the flame."